Mug Shot

Here's a lovely layout from Minnie Mae-Hemm, using lots of fabulous techniques ... paper rolling, inking, shimmer misting, stamping on acetate and more!

Instructions

1. Cut 8" square out of the middle of the sheet of white cardstock (leaving a 2" frame all the way around).
2. Trim the patterned paper to 11.5"x11.5", and stick to the white cardstock frame (make sure that the double sided tape is approximately 0.5" from the edge of the paper so that you have room to curl it).
3. Using a waterbrush wet the edges of the patterned paper and curl it between your fingers. Allow to dry (the paper will go rigid).
4. Cut a piece of beige cardstock 6"x8", and tear a small strip off the bottom at a slight angle.
5. Using the blending tool (or Cut'n'Dry foam) lightly ink the edges of the beige piece of card with the purple ink pad. Ink heavily along the torn edge. Repeat lightly around all four edges of the white cardstock.
6. Stick the piece of beige cardstock in place (approx 2.75" from the top, and 2.5" from the right hand side).
7. Spray the doily with the purple mist as desired. Leave to dry, and then spray lightly once with the silver mist. Leave to dry.
8. Stick the doily to the top right hand corner of the piece of beige cardstock.
9. Stamp three different size doily stamps onto the acetate using the black Stazon ink pad. When dry, roughly cut them out. Stick them to the back of your photo, so you can partially see them.
10. Using the tiny attached, staple 3 small pieces of ribbon folded in half to the left hand side of your photo.
11. Stick your photo in place on your layout, just overlapping the doily slightly.
12. Write you journaling onto 0.25" strips of white cardstock and edge with the purple ink pad. Stick to your layout above your photo.
13. Add your title using the glitter chipboard letters.
14. Die cut the small flourish from grungepaper and stick to the right hand side of the photo (coming out onto the doily). We've left the grungepaper "naked" as it matches the photo, but you could always colour yours with ink or paint.
15. To finish, glue small gems randomly around the doily and flourish.

Ingredients

- Bazzill "Bazzill White" Cardstock (white card)

- Bazzill "Champagne" Cardstock (beige card)

- Paperartsy "Thorndon Hall" Patterned Paper

- Acetate

- Craft Sheet

- Blending Tool / Cut'n'Dry Foam

- Distress Ink "Dusty Concord" Ink Pad (purple ink)

- My Minds Eye "Stella Rose Girly" Clear Stamp Set

- Acrylic Block

- imagine that ... Glitter Chipboard Alphabet

- Sizzix Tim Holtz "Elegant Flourishes" Bigz Die - Manual Die Cutting Machine (ie. Big Shot or Cuttlebug)

- Tim Holtz Mini Attacher

- PVA Glue

- Stazon "Jet Black" Ink Pad

- Waterbrush

- Doily

- Cosmic Shimmer Mists "Plum Twist" and "Silver"

- Tim Holtz Grungepaper

- imagine that ... "Black Diamond" Flat Backed Gems

- Purple Grosgrain Ribbon

- Black Journaling Pen